Almond causes virgin to conceive, i. 263; the father of all things, 263 _sq._ Alyattes, king of Lydia, i. 133 _n._ 1 Alynomus, king of Paphos, i. 43 Amambwe, a Bantu tribe of Northern Rhodesia, its head chief reincarnated in a lion, ii. 193 Amasis, king of Egypt, his body burnt by Cambyses, i. 176 _n._ 2 Amathus, in Cyprus, Adonis and Melcarth at, i. 32, 117; statue of lion-slaying god found at, 117 Amatongo, ancestral spirits (Zulu term), i. 74 _n._ 4, ii. 184 Ambabai, an Indian goddess, i. 243 Ambala District, Punjaub, i. 94 Amélineau, E., discovers the tomb of King Khent, ii. 21 _n._ 1 Amenophis IV., king of Egypt, his attempt to abolish all gods but the sun-god, ii. 123 _sqq._ America, reincarnation of the dead in, i. 91; the moon worshipped by the agricultural Indians of tropical, ii. 138 Amestris, wife of Xerxes, her sacrifice of children, ii. 220 _sq._ Ammon, Milcom, the god of, i. 19 Ammon (the Egyptian) at Thebes, his human wives, i. 72; of Thebes identified with the sun, ii. 123; rage of King Amenophis IV. against the god, 124 Amoor, Gilyaks of the, i. 278 _n._ 2 Amorites, their law as to fornication, i. 37 _sq._ Amsanctus, the valley of, i. 204 _sq._ Amulets, crowns and wreaths as, ii. 242 _sq._ Amyclae, in the vale of Sparta, i. 313, 314, 315 Amyclas, father of Hyacinth, i. 313 Anacreon, on Cinyras, i. 55 Anacyndaraxes, father of Sardanapalus, i. 172 Anaitis, sacred prostitution in the worship of, i. 38 _Anassa_, “Queen,” title of goddess, i. 35 _n._ 2 Anazarba or Anazarbus, in Cilicia, i. 167 _n._ 1 Ancestor-worship among the Khasis of Assam, ii. 203; combined with mother-kin tends to a predominance of goddesses over gods in religion, 211 _sq._ Ancestors, propitiation of deceased, i. 46; the worship of, the main practical religion of the Bantu tribes, ii. 176 _sqq._ Ancestral spirits on shoulders of medicine-men, i. 74 _n._ 4; incarnate in serpents, 82 _sqq._; in the form of animals, 83; worshipped by the Bantu tribes of Africa, ii. 174 _sqq._; prayers to, 175 _sq._, 178 _sq._, 183 _sq._; sacrifices to, 175, 178 _s.q._, 180, 181 _sq._, 183 _sq._, 190; on the father’s and on the mother’s side, the two distinguished, 180, 181. _See also_ Dead Anchiale in Cilicia, i. 144; monument of Sardanapalus at, 172 Andania in Messenia, sacred men and women at, i. 76 _n._ 3 Andriamasinavalona, a Hova king, vicarious sacrifice for, ii. 221 Anemone, the scarlet, sprung from the blood of Adonis, i. 226 Angel, the Destroying, over Jerusalem, i. 24 Angus, belief as to the weaning of children in, ii. 148 Anhalt, custom at sowing in, i. 239 Animals sacrificed by being hanged, i. 289 _sq._, 292; and plants, edible, savage lamentations for, ii. 43 _sq._; dead kings and chiefs incarnate in, 162, 163 _sq._, 173, 193; sacrificed to prolong the life of kings, 222